GOP wants to set clock back on civil rights

5:40 PM,
Oct. 10, 2013

Written by

DeWayne Wickham

The gathering at Morgan State University was supposed to be a panel discussion about a series of events that rocked the civil rights movement in 1963, the most tumultuous year of this country's struggle for racial justice. But shortly before it ended, a man from the audience rose to ask a question that cut to the heart of the racial conflict that plagues this nation today.

"Did it get lost somewhere that this whole discussion about health care is about race, as well?" he asked Taylor Branch, the historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. ...